SOUTH KOREA: Army for Sale

"I've fought 200 battles and never lost one," brags South Korea's army chief
of staff, 41-year-old Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, and with some
reason. An incorruptible, tough-minded professional, Song fought throughout
World War II with the Japanese army, during the Korean war commanded
South Korea's crack Capitol Division, and won his nickname from admiring
U.S. General James Van Fleet. But the offensive he launched last February
has proved in many ways the most arduous of his career. His mission: to root
out wholesale pilferage and embezzlement in the 650,000-man Korean...